[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":11},["ShallowReactive",2],{"blog-post-the-fantastically-fearsome-hayley-campbell":3},{"_type":4,"body":5,"bodyHtml":6,"excerpt":5,"featuredImage":5,"publishedAt":7,"slug":8,"tags":9,"title":10},"blogPost",null,"I've blogged an awful lot this week (yes, I know), but I had to get in one more time and congratulate my friend \u003Cb>Hayley Campbell\u003C/b>, who has her first book out this week. You might have spotted her \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/575183.html\">earlier\u003C/a> on my blog in a rather fetching six-foot-tall Seawig. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/575183.html\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/blast_seawigs_hayleywig_zpsfca9901a-da7670bef7.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\nHayley's an inch taller than me, so I always stand up very straight around her. Not that I am competitive or anything, ha ha. Hayley once wrote an article about the first time we encountered each other, at a party, which hung on that fine cliché, 'our eyes met across a crowded room' (of balding comics people heads). The article's a funny description of being tall - welcome to my world - \u003Ca href=\"http://hayleycampbell.com/2013/07/26/the-almost-literal-elephant-in-the-room/\">go read it\u003C/a>. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://hayleycampbell.com/2013/07/26/the-almost-literal-elephant-in-the-room/\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/hayley_blog_zpsf4da19a8-266b7b341f.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\u003Ci>\u003Cfont size=\"1\">\u003Ca href=\"http://hayleycampbell.com/2013/07/26/the-almost-literal-elephant-in-the-room/\">(Keep reading...)\u003C/a>\u003C/font>\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\nNow, this book she's written, \u003Cb>\u003Ci>The Art of Neil Gaiman\u003C/i>\u003C/b>, doesn't even really need advertising, because writer \u003Ca href=\"http://www.neilgaiman.com/\">Neil Gaiman\u003C/a>'s millions of fans tend to be \u003Cfont size=\"3\">MEGA FANS\u003C/font> and will buy anything by or about him. But don't just consider this book because it's about Neil, and has an introduction by \u003Ca href=\"http://audreyniffenegger.com/\">Audrey Niffenegger\u003C/a>, it's also about the launch of Hayley's book career, and this is a new writer who's going far. Is already going far! And she's done a great interview with Irish writer \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/slovobooks\">Pádraig Ó Méalóid\u003C/a> for popular online comics journal \u003Ci>The Beat\u003C/i>. \u003Ca href=\"http://comicsbeat.com/interview-hayley-campbell-on-interviewing-neil-gaiman-and-the-strange-things-in-his-attic/\">Go have a read\u003C/a>; you get a great insight into Hayley and Neil's close relationship, and Hayley's great sense of humour. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://comicsbeat.com/interview-hayley-campbell-on-interviewing-neil-gaiman-and-the-strange-things-in-his-attic/\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/hayley_beat_interview_zpsb94ad298-120f7b7bfe.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\u003Cfont size=\"1\">\u003Ci>Hayley's photo (cropped) by \u003Ca href=\"http://ellenrogers.co.uk/\">Ellen Rogers\u003C/a>\u003C/font>\u003C/i>\\r\n\\r\n\u003C!--more Click here for more under the cut!-->\\r\nI was chuffed to get a tiny mention in one of the links. (Cheers, Pádraig!) Here it is, blink and you'll miss it:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/chickpea_zpsf2485aee-c0f04c89bd.gif\">\\r\n\\r\nThis refers to a comic that's buried so deeply in that linked blog post that most people may never find it. But it's one I made during a \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/317113.html\">workshop at the Cartoon Museum\u003C/a>. We started out with a bit of character development. I was having lunch with Hayley after the workshop, so I thought I'd make it about her (and her rather fierce temper). I explained to the kids that she's obsessed with houmus.\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/hayleylunch-e85093e7ca.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nAnd then we made books. I trot out this one quite a lot now when I do workshops, showing people how it's possible to put together a whole book in 15 minutes. It was quite funny once when I showed pictures of this book at a \u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/574940.html\">British Museum workshop\u003C/a> and a kid who knew Hayley was there. Apparently he gained a whole new respect for her after seeing this comic. (I'm not exactly sure why.) So here we go:\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/hayleylunch1-1d27d72577.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/hayleylunch2-338b2aa611.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/hayleylunch3-d4d7173c78.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/hayleylunch4-b93fc0c9e0.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\n\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/hayleylunch5-d20e53618b.jpg\">\\r\n\\r\nYou can follow this dark little heart of houmous over on Twitter as \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/hayleycampbelly\">@hayleycampbelly\u003C/a>, Neil Gaiman as \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/neilhimself\">@neilhimself\u003C/a>, Pádraig Ó Méalóid as \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/slovobooks\">@slovobooks\u003C/a>, Audrey Niffenegger as \u003Ca href=\"https://twitter.com/AANiffenegger\">@AANiffenegger\u003C/a> and there's a London launch at \u003Ca href=\"http://www.goshlondon.com\">Gosh Comics\u003C/a> in Soho (where Hayley used to work) on \u003Cb>11 July\u003C/b>. Be sure to keep an eye on \u003Ca href=\"http://hayleycampbell.com/\">Hayley's blog\u003C/a>. I should add that it's not really suitable for children, she swears like a sailor. \\r\n\\r\nCongratulations on your launch, Hayley! Can't wait to see what you get up to next. \\r\n\\r\n\u003Ca href=\"http://jabberworks.livejournal.com/306306.html\">\u003Cimg src=\"https://images.jabberworks.co.uk/lj/sarah_hayley-fe56d29949.jpg\">\u003C/a>\\r\n\\r\n\u003Ci>The Art of Neil Gaiman is out now in the USA, and comes out in the UK in mid-July.\u003C/i>","2014-05-22T21:05:00.000Z","the-fantastically-fearsome-hayley-campbell",[],"the fantastically fearsome hayley campbell",1776628726452]